The Connection between Relaxation, Stress Relief, Emotional & Physical Well-being Can Be Demonstrated in Great Paintings. This is of vital importance because today we live in the midst of wars, rumors of wars, floods, pestilence, and of course as we have just seen close to home earthquakes. Life is stressful. At no time in human history has the global world be closer with more information, more demands, personal and governmental agendas. Life is stressful.

Negative thoughts, attitudes, emotions, feelings, misperception, anxiety, fear, depression, anger, resentment and social alignment are causing havoc with health problems and health related issues. “Me-ism”, “What I deserve”, “What I am entitled to”, and a quick “cell-phone donation” have taken the place of service to our fellow human beings. Lining oneself up with people who are continually spewing negative thoughts and emotions, watching and imitating, mirroring what you think others have and you want have negative effects on conscious decisions. The energy drain of negative people and the environment around oneself and the media has sucked the positives out of life, balance and the foundational rights and wrong that a person has grown up with. Unhappy people, hypochondriacs, and stifling relationships with people who have made wrong choices lead one to negative structure and chemical change. Changes brought about with attitudes, non feelings, anxiety, anger, resentment, social realignment exert powerful affects on a person’s healthy well being. Time has disappeared into daily planners and self management software. Lobbyist and payments to politicians have caused the worst recession since the great depression. At no time in human history in the midst of the information explosion has the workload for some and the non work for others created such anxiety and fear. Life is stressful and the health problem grows.

The powers of positives continually fight these overwhelming affects. Positives and the power of positive thinking, acting and being can help ones’ immune system. Look around are you in the midst of a negative group? Are you working in a high stress negative environment? Are you feeling that each and every day you are being attacked at some level or you are losing control, encountering failure, suffering from constantly changing medical conditions? Have you made choices which are a direct result of your present condition?

One of our great combatants to these issues is great paintings! Paintings that deal with your hearts emotions; paintings that capture your thoughts, dreams and inner most mind; paintings that engage you beyond some picture put up for décor or color matching are great paintings. These paintings remind you daily of the positives. They take your memories and gift them to you a new and afresh each time you see them and listen to them with your very soul. These painting let you breathe and relax renewing your very being. These paintings take you deep to world only you have traveled and they bring you to a life marker that releases the positives necessary to build and strengthen your health.

Great paintings are vital and unique weapons in the arsenal for health and well being. They are not some series of self absorbed rotating pictures in a box or some moving video that aggregates itself with all the other stresses. They are works of color, of imaged expression of an artist’s inner most interpretation of his or her creative being. They are modeled to meet you head on, to grow with you daily and bring you a constant and continually balm of positive reinforced memories and messages that are therapy to your very bones.

Wake up to the fact that great art paintings are here for you! You can find them at museums. You can find them at exhibitions. You can find them in galleries. You can find them at artist studios. You can find them online. You can see, observe, and look for them in the environments you encounter from the corporate world to the world of healthcare. The main thing is to find them and if at all possible acquire them either in their original form or in some print fashion. You’ll easily recognize them because they call you by name and engage your conscious and your unconscious and they speak volumes directly to your very being. They will seem like they have been created for you and for you alone and they will form a bond with you that is as close as any friendship. They won’t disappoint you or change their feelings for you, but will add positive, that last lifetime.

Find them acquire them and preserve them and if you already have one then find another. It’s worth it.

Douglas Auld
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About the Author:
Douglas Auld
Artist, Painter, Poet and Writer
http://art-paintings.us
http://www.paint-tings.com
http://findmypaintings.blogspot.com/

For More Paintings Go to Paint-tings Gallery!

“We feel the most important thing given the current catastrophe is, if you have a relationship with God, to pray for the people Haiti!”

“May God bless you!”

“Oh See The Light”

Documentation and research have indicated that the Chinese implemented and studied the effects of color and its affect on human health. Their results have proven that there is a connection within the brain and an effect on human beings. Moods, emotions, feeling, and positive effects can be directly related to the viewing and engaging of art paintings.

3,000 years ago the Chinese developed the ancient art and theory of “Feng Shui”. “Feng Shui” is the complex body of knowledge that reveals balance and energy into a human space. Much of the fueg shui movement has found itself in interior design and modern décor. The feng shui color guide using red, orange, purple, pink and strong pink is a huge part of its advance in interior design and décor.

Abstract art has dominated the world of art’s landscape for much of the past 30 years. In the United States alone it is still the single most directed thrust of art colleges and visual art universities to their burgeoning students. Abstract paintings and abstract art paintings have exploded on to the art world in an unprecedented way.

Society and our culture should become more aware of the possibilities this integration has for better living and better health, men health and women health alike. Every opportunity should be made in the corporate world to purchase and display works, paintings that use affective healing, health colors, feng shui colors to create better more healthy environments for people to work in.

Many of the top artists today those who value their own work and the lives and health of their viewing audiences and patrons are making great strides in the use of specific colors and color sets. Artists should embrace more of an effort to integrate and use health colors and feng shui color in the paintings and art expressions. Study and research within the art community should go hand in hand with the medical community in affectively dealing with Alzheimer’s, nursing home care, and healthcare facilities using art paintings that not only engage viewers and patrons, but provide them with the positive that art paintings bring.

Think about the positive affect this movement could have on the world of painting. It could act as a renewal of quests, stimulations and huge opportunities to infuse the art world’s artists with working capital, encouragement and excitement in their creative expressions.

Everyone wins, society and culture is enhanced. Women health and men health stand to have added improvement without that same cost structures seen in drugs and medicine. Every working environment would offer positive effects on emotions and feeling. Treatment and care could see dramatic changes in the way people feel.

Who knew? We do and now you do! Tell someone and get the ball rolling; we all could benefit greatly.

Douglas Auld
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About the Author:
Douglas Auld
Artist, Painter, Poet and Writer
http://art-paintings.us
http://www.paint-tings.com
http://findmypaintings.blogspot.com/

For More Paintings Go to Paint-tings Gallery!

We are living in tenuous times. What a mess. Tiger Woods went from the ultimate Player of the Decade to a $100 million dollar sponsor wash out in a matter of weeks. In tennis as well as just about every sport me-ism yells at everybody that disagrees with the individual. Players act as if they had done something hugely special in doing their route assignments. There is no loyalty between organization and individuals and coaches punish players for having concussions. Sports have no corner on the mess market. One is still OK even if they’ve forsaken their vows, lost magic feelings and have combative, non communicating relationships or committed adultery. After all, one has to get on with one’s life. We are now touting that divorce rates are lower because Americans can’t afford to get divorced. No word on how kids now see divorce as part of marriage or how they have been poisoned toward one of their parents, or even if the grass is greener in someone else’s bed.

Our feel good, self-absorbed society fights daily for “me-ism” and “15 minutes of fame”. We easily forget that as soon as the time runs out so do the people who care. Herein lays the destructive water damage and erosion of a culture and society who once prided itself in people, service, education and the arts and freedom. We set about educating our youth in the opportunities of exploring their God given talents. What we have done is pat the little ones on their heads and tell them they were American Idols with birth rights to recording contracts, television specials and happily ever after lives before they have even sung a note. Part of the back lash of all this is that rejection has made everyone a head coach from the bleachers or in front of the high-def TV. Everyone’s an artist and everyone is a critic. Sorry but poster paint on newsprint didn’t give one this right and community college or night school doesn’t make one the second coming of Picasso. Using one’s vocal cords to spout off about something of which one truly has no understanding doesn’t make them a professional reviewer, let alone an authority.

Just because our society and culture has developed a whacked view of beauty, appreciation and care, let alone the arts and art paintings, doesn’t mean we should throw everything into the rubbish trucks. If we would first stop, listen, think, and consider where we are and what occupies us we might start down the correct path. If we’d only start to think before we open up our mouths, if we’d engage our brains, if we would try to learn something or even appreciate something or someone before spouting off, things might change. If we would consider with more humility and in light of elevating others what others have done to allow us what we have, we might have a new respect for our God given positions. If we would look closely, try to see with more than our natural eyes and if we’d listen with more than our natural ears, things might change. True art paintings engage you. True art paintings give positive messages and like wine, stand the test of time and grow on you. Just like all the experts and research studies tell us that long marriage partnerships, in which there is always struggle, are better than any divorce, true art paintings enhance your life and get better with time. You can’t keep art paintings wrapped up. You have to look at them with your heart and your soul. You have to listen to their messages and you have to engage them like any other serious relationship.

Rather than sit there and spout off about this and that, find art paintings that hit you, that move you, that engage you. Find the positives. Compare them with things you accomplished, you developed, you created, you spent time developing and think about the individual who poured themselves into its creation. Start to live out rather than live in. Be thankful for all you have and what God has given you. If you stop, look and think on it, it’s always better than what it could be.

Douglas Auld
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About the Author:
Douglas Auld
Artist, Painter, Poet and Writer
http://art-paintings.us
http://www.paint-tings.com
http://findmypaintings.blogspot.com/

For More Paintings Go to Paint-tings Gallery!